My router has died. I am connected to the internet with a cable. I am TETHERED!!! Anyone have a suggestion for a new router? I currently have (had) a D-Link DI-614+ 2.4 Ghz router. I live in a one bedroom apartment, so it doesn't need to be too powerful, I would think.
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Vortex - Nov 11, 2009 12:56:46 pm PST #11626 of 25501
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
dcp - Nov 11, 2009 3:44:52 pm PST #11627 of 25501
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
I've been using this one for about three years. The ones linked to upthread look good, but what I've got still works fine.
DCJensen - Nov 11, 2009 5:11:41 pm PST #11628 of 25501
All is well that ends in pizza.
Vortex, how dead is it?
If there is power, it might be resurrected with the hidden reset button trick.
Vortex - Nov 11, 2009 5:21:25 pm PST #11629 of 25501
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
there is no power. there is no light, there is no zuul.
DCJensen - Nov 11, 2009 6:29:46 pm PST #11630 of 25501
All is well that ends in pizza.
Ach, then. T'were best done quickly.
Gudanov - Nov 12, 2009 4:56:35 am PST #11631 of 25501
Coding and Sleeping
This is what I use and it's been flawless [link]
It's good for Internet use, but if you do big data transfers between your own computers, then spending extra for a wireless N router is worth it. At a similar price you might as well go N too, but I haven't used any so I don't have any data to point you toward one.
Jon B. - Nov 12, 2009 5:09:50 am PST #11632 of 25501
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Why do routers fail so often, anyway? Isn't the entire thing solid state? Shouldn't they last longer than, say, your television?
Jessica - Nov 12, 2009 5:12:41 am PST #11633 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I've had my current router longer than my TV.
flea - Nov 12, 2009 5:23:03 am PST #11634 of 25501
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I am pretty sure my television dates from before there were internet routers. (It was my husband's grandmother's, and she died several years before I met him in 1995).
Vortex - Nov 12, 2009 5:39:14 am PST #11635 of 25501
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Why do routers fail so often, anyway? Isn't the entire thing solid state? Shouldn't they last longer than, say, your television?
Well, I've had this one for at least 4 years (possibly longer), and I got it from Ginger, so she'd used it for a while before that.